Hair curling device



May 20,1941. M. E. ROSE 2,242,549

i HAIR CURLING 'DEVICE Filed April l5, 1940 Fia. 6'.

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Patented May 20, 1941 UNiTEDsTATEs Partnr 2,242,549 HAIR oURLINo DEVICE Marion E. Rose, Chicago, Ill. Application April 15, 1940, Serial No. 329,716.

(o1. 'isz-44) 4 Claims.

My invention relates to improvements in hair curlers and similar devices.

My invention relates more particularly to improvements in a hair curler of the type that women use in the home for producing curls or ringlets by setting or putting the hair up on curlers. While a great many types and varieties of these curlers are at present on the market, there are certain faults and imperfections in the same which have created a demand for a more desirable type of hair curler.

The principal object of my invention is to provide an improved type of hair curler.

A further object of my invention is to provide an improved type of hair curler that is easily and simply constructed and assembled.

A further object is to provide an improve-d type of hair curler which is flexible and in which the hair can be rolled and then the ends of the curler fastened together so that the same is not easily dislodged from the hair while being worn.

A further object is to provide a hair curler of the type described so constructed that when it is desired to remove the same, this is easily accomplished by unfastening the connected ends so that the ycurler can spring to a straight position and be removed.

Other objects and advantages will be more apparent from the following description wherein reference is had to the accompanying sheet of drawings, upon which Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the flat spring steel body member which I employ;

Fig. 2 is a similar perspective view of a flexible enclosing member or tube;

Fig. 3 is a similar perspective view showing the spring member and tube assembled together;

Fig. 4 is an elevational View with parts broken in section showing the manner in which the ends of the curler are fastened together;

Fig. 5 is an elevational view of a modified form of the invention in which the body member is molded into the enclosing member, and

Fig. 6 is a sectional view of the same.

In the embodiment of the invention which I have chosen to illustrate, in Fig. 1 I have shown the flat spring steel member l0 which is formed with a narrow extension l2 at one end and a loop I 4 struck up in the opposite end to provide a slot I6 through which the extension l2 may be fastened as hereinafter described.

In Fig. 2 I have shown a flexible tubular member I8 which may be formed of rubber or other elastic material, and is of such size that the spring member Ii! may be passed therethrough with the prong I2r projecting from one end of the same. The curler thus constructed is used in the following manner. In its extended position as shown in Fig. 3, it is laid upon a strand of hair near the end of the hair, and the hair is rolled upon the same. When the curler is as close to the head as is desired, the ends of the curler are bent in a loop so as to meet, and in this position the prong l2 is passed through the slot i6, thus fastening the ends of the curler together, both for the purpose of retaining the same on the strand of hair and for holding the hair in the woundl position to effect the curl which is desired. When the curler has been set in the hair for the desired length of time, it is easily removed by grasping the two ends of the curler and pul' g them apart, whereupon the spring member avwill iiatten out and the curler is easily unrolled from the strand of hair.

In Figs. 5 and 6 I have shown a modified form of the invention in which the spring member Illa is molded in a rubber or other elastic material 2l) with the opposite ends 22 and 24 projecting from the material 2U. The end 24 is formed with a hook portion 2t is formed with a ridge 28 so that when this type of curler is rolled upon a strand of hair the ends rcan be fastened together in a manner similar to that described by fastening th-e hook portion over the ridge 28. To remove the curler from the hair, the ends are grasped and the spring member lila will straighten the curler so that it can be easily removed.

While I have illustrated and described a preferred it will be apparent that other is extremely simple 1s a valuable adjunct to the What I desire to secure an-dI protect by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. A hair curler comprising a fiat spring steel body member, a flexible tube encincling the same and the end 22- and means on the ends of said spring body member for connecting the opposite ends together, said means including a narrow extension at one end of said body member and a slot formed in the other end through which said extension may be inserted.

2. A hair curler comprising a flat vspring steel body member, a cylindrical body of flexible material encircling the same and means on the ends of said spring body member for connecting the opposite ends together, said means including a hook portion formed at one end of said body member and a ridge formed on the other end over which said hook portion can be fastened to ex the curler and hold the ends together"aten'itvv has been applied to a strand of hair to be curled.

3. A hair curler comprising a long, narrow, flat spring member moulded into a exible icovering which encloses all of the same except the encircling the same and fastening means on the ends of said spring body member for connecting the opposite ends together When they are curled about a strand of hair, said fastening means be- "ing formed integral with the spring body member and comprising frictionally interconnecting portions, one at each end of said body member.

MARION E. ROSE. 

